At the core of her album The Infinite Heart, notes singer Ashana, is a "remembrance of the divine feminine" as reflected in the words of Christian mystics Hildegard von Bingen and Saint Francis; ancient Sanskrit and Lakota chants; and even a hymn to Our Lady of Guadaloupe. These disparate sources are united under Ashana's layered vocals as well as gingerly applied passages of bansuri flute, sarod, esraj, bass, synthesizers, viola, and cello. Most striking are the masterful duets Ashana has with her “alchemy crystal” singing bowls; her vocals extend inward and coalesce out of the bowl tonalities so precisely that it's sometimes impossible to discern where one ends and the other begins. Just trying to to do so is one of the ways you can let this music draw you in and smooth out the ruffled feathers of your day.

Unlike many vocalists in this genre, Ashana lets the overlapping drones of her singing bowls organize the structure of her singing. In "Everything I Am" her words, "A touch, a word, a whisper, a breath / A smile, a kiss, this love is everything I am" seem to drop down with a clockwork precision as if dripping steadily from heaven's rainspout. In "Om the Sacred Heart" each vowel extends into the darkness like a ray of candlelight until, gradually, the whole of the night is lit to blazing. "To Be Loved" uses the Prayer of Saint Francis to slowly work up to a spire of strings and drumming that moves at the speed of slowly rotating circular breath until it creases the lip of the infinite.

Throughout The Infinite Heart, Ashana's beautiful denomination-transcending faith carries the wild but centered energy one feels when, for example, bungee jumping or doing that falling-backward-acting-class exercise, only you're falling backward alone in an empty room. If your heart truly believes in a universal love then you are caught in loving arms even before you let go, so it hardly matters how you land. The Prayer of Saint Francis track, "To Be Loved" carries that kind of faithful power: "Love / Make me an instrument / Of thy peace," it begins, and it's clear for Ashana that prayer has come true. Press play, trust, and let yourself fall deep into her loving Infinite Heart.